Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broad jump--Won by Bundy, (Y) (21 feet 9 7/8 inches); second, Grimes. (Y) 21 feet 8 1/4 inches); second, Thayer (H) (21 feet 1 3/4 inches...
...correspondent," Foreign Assistant Editor Donald M. Wallace wrote to one of them, "should listen to all prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
Sunday, at the Concord jumping championships, the Crimson revived, made a treaty with lady luck, and beat the field of over forty contestants on the 30 meter jump. Griffin, who fell at Dartmouth, won the day with flights of 103 and 101 feet, while Coach Bill Halsey took third and Genn fourth...
With more sorrow than surprise, the undergraduate found in his mailbox Sunday an announcement of a 30 percent jump in room rents. The increase was far from unexpected. Although expenses at Harvard had risen much less than elsewhere, it became clear that the administration could not hold the line when other colleges, such as Columbia, were already announcing their second round of rent boosts...
...increase in rent must come from the veteran's meager subsistence allowance, or, if that is used up, from his personal savings, while a tuition boost can be absorbed by surplus eligibility time. Even the recently voted increase in subsistence allotments, which will almost exactly cover the rent jump, should not blind College officials to the fact that balance-sheet niceties are less important than student wallets...